dogma

dogma.

(Del lat. dogma, y este del gr. δόγμα).

1. m. Proposición que se asienta por firme y cierta y como principio innegable de una ciencia.

2. m. Doctrina de Dios revelada por Jesucristo a los hombres y testificada por la Iglesia.

3. m. Fundamento o puntos capitales de todo sistema, ciencia, doctrina o religión.
Fuente: Diccionario de la Real Academia Española

The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. -- Whewell.
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2. A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
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3. A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.

Syn: tenet; opinion; proposition; doctrine.

Usage: -- Dogma, Tenet. A tenet is that which is maintained as true with great firmness; as, the tenets
of our holy religion. A dogma is that which is laid
down with authority as indubitably true, especially a
religious doctrine; as, the dogmas of the church. A
tenet rests on its own intrinsic merits or demerits; a
dogma rests on authority regarded as competent to
decide and determine. Dogma has in our language
acquired, to some extent, a repulsive sense, from its
carrying with it the idea of undue authority or
assumption. This is more fully the case with its
derivatives dogmatical and dogmatism.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English